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Jokes On You: What it Means to Battle Amalek

A shiur exploring the deeper meaning of Amalek as a "Leitz" and the blurring lines between humor and…

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A shiur exploring the deeper meaning of Amalek as a "Leitz" and the blurring lines between humor and reality.

A 51 min hashkafa shiur by Rabbi Yaakov Klein. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay what a remarkable privilege to sit with all of you I just want to thank the host wonderful host for making this possible and to everybody else who's involved in arranging the sh I don't know what this is but I think it's wonderful any time that people are getting together to learn I'm sure it's a good thing and it's a it's a a privilege to be involved and it's a wonderful thing to learn all the time but it's even deeper to be able to sit together and learn right before a Yan when we know that theak tell us the holy Works tell us that to the degree that a person prepares themselves For an upcoming special time that's exactly the degree to which they're going to benefit from that experience and actually the great Masters found that hinted to in the Milla itself where the PK tells us about AOS the wicked King who was advised by hamon to kill vashi and that was 's suggestion after Rebels against wishes and the says the king did in accordance with the advice of M so M our sages teach us is actually ham it's just a different word but we know that anytime the word me is in the Milla where it isn't right it's followed up by we know that it's in a very deep and and hidden way to reference to hasem so they say the p is actually telling [Music] us who does for a person in accordance with is seen as having the root of the

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  1. 0:01okay what a remarkable privilege to sit with all of you I just want to thank…
  2. 4:58week in a long month and it's it's all it's busy and the PK says lat…
  3. 10:13point B and AER and they happen upon clel along the way that's what the word…
  4. 15:05bit from rman in a number of places not going to read inside I didn't make…
  5. 20:33itself can you give an example so so here I'm just talking in abstractions now let's…
  6. 25:20desperate thirst for real meaning which means that our lives should really matter like a capital…
  7. 30:43one more question for now though yeah um it's kind of on that theme if you…
  8. 35:29the might of that experience over here he says he uses just read one sentence he…
  9. 40:50in half the depth of our engagement with this elus with all the Sparkles and the…
  10. 45:28hopefully he said this he said the things that human beings were doing 5,000 years ago…

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